It starts with one starfish, or one minute

A big job starts with a single action.

Got a minute?

I want to tell you a story.

Two men were walking on the beach, a beach littered with thousands of starfish that had been stranded when the tide went out.

They were dying.

One of the men bemoaned what nature had done, while the other reached down, picked up a starfish and carried it to the water.

"There are thousands," his friend said. "You can't possibly make a difference."

The man picked up another starfish and carried it to the water.

"I made a difference to that one," he said, smiling.

We get overwhelmed by the size of our problems, by the size of all the terrible things that seem to be happening in the world. Millions of folks out of work, millions of mortgages underwater, billions of folks either starving or close to it.

What can we do about it?

We'll be talking about that in future posts, but for now, remember the old Chinese saying.

A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

And healing the world can start with a single starfish.

Thanks for the minute.